More than Conquerors

 

For Christmas I received a CD from a family member. It is "The Lamb of God" by Rob Gardener. I have listened to it multiple times and I am constantly touched by the Spirit that I feel as I do so.
There is a scripture that is quoted in "The Lamb of God." I was reading in Romans the other day and found it!
In Romans 8:35-39 Paul says, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
That struck me. NOTHING can separate us from the love of God. There is nothing which will make God no longer love us. He will always love us enough to help us, even when we feel completely undeserving and when we are afraid to ask for His help. He loves us and there is nothing we can do that will ever change that.
My favorite verse: "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Through Christ and His infinite and Atoning sacrifice, we can become conquerors in all things! We can become all that He knows we can become because He will help us. "[His] grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before [Him]..." (Ether 12:27)

No matter how far away from our Heavenly Father we feel, no matter how far we have wandered from the teachings, doctrine and example of Christ, no matter how deep in despair we are, the Lord has provided a way to make us conquerors: "Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan..." (Doctrine and Covenants 10:5)
Through constant prayer and seeking to do the will of our Heavenly Father, through obedience and continuous repentance, we can receive grace because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and thus receive the strength to continue to do the will of the Lord. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
Because God loved us, He allowed His Son to be sent to atone for the sins of the world. And because of that sacrifice, "...In ALL these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us!" (Romans 8:37, emphasis added)